H.P. Lovecraft : four decades of criticism / edited by S.T. Joshi. - xv, 247 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-237) and index

H.P. Lovecraft : his life and work / Lovecraft criticism : a study. Chronology of selected works by H.P. Lovecraft / H.P. Lovecraft : an appreciation / Tales of the marvellous and the ridiculous / Literary Copernicus / The supernatural in fiction / Cthulhu mythos : a study / Some notes on Cthulhuian pseudobiblia / H.P. Lovecraft : myth-maker / On the literary influences which shaped Lovecraft's works / Through hyperspace with Brown Jenkin : Lovecraft's contribution to speculative fiction / Influence of Vathek on H.P. Lovecraft's The dream-quest of unknown Kadath / Poe and Lovecraft / H.P. Lovecraft in Hawthornian perspective / Facts in the case of H.P. Lovecraft / 'White ship' : a psychological odyssey / Lovecraft and the cosmic quality in fiction / Dystopia as utopia : Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the unknown content of American horror literature / Parenthesis on Lovecraft as poet / Lovecraftian nightmare. Continuity of The fungi from Yuggoth / To Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Kenneth W. Faig Jr. & S.T. Joshi -- S.T. Joshi -- T.O. Mabbott -- Edmund Wilson -- Fritz Leiber Jr. -- Peter Penzoldt -- George T. Wetzel -- Edward Lauterbach -- Dirk W. Mosig -- J. Vernon Shea -- Fritz Leiber Jr. -- Peter Cannon -- Robert Bloch -- Peter Cannon -- Barton L. St Armand -- Dirk W. Mosig -- Richard L. Tierney -- Paul Buhle -- Winfield Townley Scott -- R. Boerem -- Clark Ashton Smith From Epilogue :

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